We subjoin the following table, exhibiting the extent and population of India, which we copy from the second edi tion of Mr. Hamilton's Indian Gazetteer. Some later accounts have been published as to the population of particular provinces; but we believe that this is the most accurate statement that has hitherto been framed, embracing the whole country.

Under the Bombay presidency

Territories in the Deccan, &c., acquired since 1815, consisting of the Peishwa's dominions, &c., and since mostly attached to the Bombay presidency

8,000

1,000,000

Under the Rajas of Jondpour, Jeypoor, Odeypoor, Bicancere, Jesselmere, and other rajpoot chiefs, Holcar, Ameer Khan, the Row of Kutch, Bhurtpoor, Macherry, and numerous other petty chiefs, Seikes, Gonds, Bheels, Coolies, and Catties, all comprehended within the line of British protection

INDIA BEYOND THE GANGES.-British Acquisitions in 1824 and 1825.

Countries south of Rangoon, consisting of half the province of Martaban, and the provinces of Tavoy, Ye, Tenasserin, and the Mergui isles

The province of Arracan

Countries from which the Burmese have been expelled, consisting of Assam and the adjacent petty states, occupying a space of about

Total

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77,000

301,000

“Excise Duties, in Revenue and Finance, are | tant articles, and furnishes nearly a third part of duties imposed on articles produced or manufac- the entire public revenue of the kingdom. tured at home, while in the possession of the prodacers or manufacturers. They were introduced into England by the Long Parliament in 1643, being then laid on the makers and venders of ale, beer, cider, and perry. The royalists soon after followed the example of the republicans; both sides declaring that the excise should be continued no longer than the termination of the war.

But

it was found too productive a source of revenue to be again relinquished; and when the nation had been accustomed to it for a few years, the parliament declared, in 1649, that the impost of excise was the most easy and indifferent levy that could be laid upon the people. It was placed on a new footing at the Restoration; and notwithstanding Mr. Justice Blackstone says, that 'from its first original to the present time, its very name has been odious to the people of England' (Com. book i. c. 8.), it has continued progressively to gain ground; and is at this moment imposed on several impor

"For the more easy levy of the excise duties, England and Wales are divided into about fifty-six collections, some of which are called by the names of particular counties, others by the names of great towns. Where one county is divided into several collections, or where a collection comprises the contiguous parts of several counties, every such collection is subdivided into several districts, within which there is a supervisor; and each district is again subdivided into out-rides and foot-walks, within each of which there is a surveying officer or guager. Some excise duties, that were justly objected to, have been repealed within these few years; and with the exception of the duty on glass, which interferes injuriously with the manufacture, we are not sure that there is one of the existing duties that can be fairly objected to on principle, though the rate of duty might, in some instances, be advantageously reduced. It has been said, that the excise duties greatly raise the cost

of subsistence to the laboring classes.' But this [ble, and without any of that verbosity, repetition, assertion has really no foundation. In fact, the and technical jargon that infects acts of parliaonly excise duty that can be said to fall on a neces-ment, and renders them all but incomprehensible to sary of life is that on soap, which produced in ordinary persons. A manufacturer abiding by this 1838 (in Great Britain) 809,0317.; but as the po- abstract should be held to have abided by the law, pulation of Great Britain amounts at present to and should not be further questioned on the subject. about 18,000,000, the soap tax cannot, at an ave- A measure of this sort might be easily carried into rage, impose a burden of 11d. a year on each in-effect. It would be an immense improvement, and dividual. If we estimate its annual pressure on a would go far to obviate the only good objection to laboring family of five persons at from 2s. 6d. to the excise duties."

3s., we shall not be within but beyond the mark.

A GALLOP AMONG AMERICAN SCENERY.* This very handsome volume does credit to the New-York press, from its clear type and beautiful proportions. Its descriptions, particularly those relating to military adventure, are thrilling.

The poetical conceptions are wrought up with some of life's severest realities, while the moral tinge spread over the whole, is a kind of halo or looming, bringing the objects and principles nearer, in a softened and picturesque light.

"The only taxes, in the various departments of the revenue, that can be truly said to fall on articles necessary to the laborer, are, besides soap, principally those on tea and sugar. We incline to think that the duties on these articles might be very materially reduced without affecting the revenue; but, however that may be, it cannot be truly affirmed that they entail any grievous burden on the laboring classes, The entire nett produce of the excise duties in Great Britain in 1838 amounted to 12,775,9557., of which the duties on spirits and malt, that is, on spirits and beer, produced no less than 8,604,115. In Ireland, during the same year, the excise duties amounted to 1,974,5667., of which the spirit and malt duties furnished above four-fifths, or 1,795,165/. The rate at which this revenue was collected was nearly 6 per cent. in Great Britain, and 9 per cent. in Ireland. Now, we are bold to say, that no equal amount of revenue was ever raised with so little inconvenience or injury to the contributors. Even We pass the beautiful descriptions, views, scenes, though they were not required by the public exi- and incidents on the Potomac, and at Mount Vergencies, the duties on spirits obstruct a pernicious non; and the naval stories of Old Kennedy the habit, and should not be given up. They are the Quarter-Master, except to pause one moment, best of all possible duties; and the only thing to where Captain Hull gives orders for the fire of the be attended to in their imposition, is not to carry Constitution, when she captured the Guerriere, them to such a height as to defeat their object by and the account of Captain Perry's leaving the encouraging smuggling. We have yet to learn, wrecked Lawrence at the victory of Lake Erie : supposing they are not carried beyond this limit, which cannot be read without feelings of patriotic that a single good objection can be made to these enthusiasm. duties.

It is not our intention to enter upon a review of this work, in the ordinary fashion of criticismshowing our ingenuity by discovering faults; but briefly to point to a few of the many passages marked by deep pathos and moral feeling! and leave the reader of the book to form his estimate of the whole, as we have done ours.

Lane.

So, in the stirring scenes in the attack on Fort "The obscurity and complexity of the excise Erie, and the battle of Lundy's Lane, we can laws has been justly complained of. It is needless scarcely quote passages without marring their symto say, that they ought to be brief, clear, and level metry, so rapid and interwoven are the details. to the apprehension of every one. But, so far But, as an example of elevated thought and true from this being the case, they are in most in- feeling, we extract the closing page, and the aposstances lengthened, contradictory, and unintelligible.trophe to those who fell in the battle of Lundy's There were at no distant period some 40 or 50 acts in existence having reference to the glass duties, and at this moment from 25 to 30 have reference to the paper duties, and so for the others. It is, in fact, all but impossible for any one to tell what the law really is on many points; so that the trader is left at the mercy of the officers, and a wide door is opened to favoritism and fraud. This disgraceful state of things might, however, be easily remedied by getting the treasury or the excise to prepare a short abstract of the law as to each duty, drawn up in the clearest and least ambiguous manner possi

After reading a simple epitaph inscribed on a board, by some kind and unknown hand, to the memory of an officer, which the writer found mouldering on the battle-ground, he exclaims:

"And this is honor! This is fame! Why, brave man! even now, I read the tribute to thy bravery in the bulletin of the action. Thou hast comrades— father, mother, sisters to mourn thy loss—and now,

* A Gallop among American Scenery; or, Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure. By Augustus E. Silliman: D. Appleton & Co., New-York.

the stranger's foot carelessly spurns thy frail me- | make her fast to this dead log. We'll steal gently mento; nor father, mother, sisters, nor human through the woods, and come upon him unawares. hand can point to the spot where rest thy ashes. Softly--press those vines away; whist-avoid the Peace to thy manes, brave countrymen, where'er rustling of the branches; here, creep through these they sleep. bushes-tread lightly on the fallen leaves-you'll "See from this point, how gently and gracefully mire upon that swampy bottom. Hush-hushundulates the battle-field; the woods bowing to the tread softly-that crackling branch! He lifts his evening breeze, as the soft sunlight pours through head-he looks uneasily about him-stand quiet. their branches, show not the gashes of rude cannon-Now he browses again; get a little nearer-we are shot-the plain, loaded and bending with the yel- within distance. I'll try him-click. Back go low harvest, betrays no human gore-yon hill, the autlers-the cocking of the rifle has alarmed scathed, scorched and blackened with cannon-flame, him-he's off! Here goes, hit or miss-crack-he the very resting-place of the deadly battery, shows jumps ten feet in the air. I've missed him-he no relic of the fierce death-struggle, as covered bounds onward-no-yes-by Jove! he's downwith the fragrant clover and wild bluebell; the bee, he's up again--he plunges forward-he falls again— in monotonous hum, banquets over it. Nought he rises-falls-he struggles to his knees—he— mars the serenity of nature as she smiles upon us. falls. Hurrah! he's ours,-quick-quick-thy Yet, burnt in common funeral pyre, the ashes of coteau de chasse, we'll make sure of him. Stopthose brave men, of friend and foe, there mingle stop. Poor deer! and I have murdered thee, for in the bosom whence they issued. The frenzied my sport have murdered thee-have taken from passion passed, the furious conflict over, they have thee the precious boon of life-with cruelty have lain down in quiet, and, like young children, sleep broken the silver chord, which the beggar's blunt gently, sweetly, in the lap of that common mother, knife can sever, but not the jewelled fingers of the who shelters with like protection, the little field- monarch, again rejoin. There—there, thou liestmouse from its gambols, and the turbaned Sultan true to the great master's picture, sinking amid his prostrate millions. Shades of my gallant countrymen!-shades of their daring foes-farewell. Ne'er had warriors a more glorious death-couch,-the eternal cataracts roar your requiem."

The big round tears, course down thy innocent nose in piteous chase,

And thy smooth leathern sides pant almost to bursting.' thy life blood flows apace-e'en now, thy large soft eye dims in the sleep of death--and I have slain The paper on Lake George and Ticonderoga, thee. Thou had'st nought other enemy, than the abounds with fine images. Describing the "steam gaunt coward wolf, or fanged serpent; him, with spirit" which urged the boat over the crystal wa-light leaping bounds, thou laugh'st to scorn, as ters of the lake, he says "how like Sampson in his long howl struck on thy quick ear; and the the Prison-Mill, struggling, giant like, he again sullen rattler, with many blows of thy tiny polished applies him to his toil. Imprisoned spirit! there is no help for thee. Sweat thou must, and pant, and groan, till, like thy fellow-laborer, man, released from fire fetter, as he from earth, resolved to pure ether, thou shalt float again, free and delighted, in the clear elements above!

"Ho! brother spirit, tarry, tarry-wait thou a little 'till I join thee,-then, how gallantly we'll ride!-couched on summer-clouds lazily, we'll float or, glancing on sun-rays, shoot, swift as thought, 'mid the bright worlds rolling in sublimity above us. We'll bathe in the moon's cold splendor, fan in the sultry heat of crimson mars, slide upon Saturn's eternal snows, or joyously gambolling along the Milkyway, we'll chase the starry serpent to his den."

hoof thou dash'st to pieces, ere from his deadly coil, his flattened head, with glistening tongue and protruded fangs, could reach thee. Oh! I shame me of my miscreant fellowship. Even the poisonous serpent, with quick vibrating tail, did give thee warning. I stole upon thee unawares. Hunter-take again thy weapon; for thee-'tis thy vocation-perhaps 'tis well-the game is thine. I entreat of thee, let not my innocent victim again reproach my eye-sight."

The delineation of Brenton's reef, is vividly accurate, and the shipwreck which occurred upon it not many years since, is a true record, never to be forgotten by the inhabitants of that part of Rhode Island; and, even at this day, it saddens the spirits of many who remember that awful event-that dreary night, and terrific storm.

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In the same boat, while cruising among the beautiful islands and shores of that placid lake, a deer But we are going far beyond our intended brevity, is discovered on one of the wooded islands, and and quote but one more passage, from the chapter the author asking a hunter who was on board for on Long Island Sound," which contains many his rifle, gives the following description of killing local descriptions of great truth and beauty, with the deer: allusions to its supernatural legends, and antiquated "Launch the canoe. Come, hunter-peace-history. Among other peculiarities, a solitary peace-keep the dogs on board; paddle for yonder Indian, who, it was believed, had strayed from some point-now we shoot upon the pebbly beach-now of the western tribes, lived in a lonely hut on its

high rocks of Sasco, and his robe shall fall from his shoulders as his broad chest waits the deatharrow of the Great Spirit. There will he sit and smoke in silence, as he looks down upon the deserted hunting-grounds of his fathers. Pequot's heart is heavy,-Pequot will not drink.”

"The Great Spirit was kind to him, for a few years after, he was found stark and stiff, frozen to death on the very rocks to which he had alluded."

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shores--and from haunting a swamp from which have sunk from its deadly poison, as the mist wreath the Pequots were dislodged in the early settlement in the midday sun. The good Moravians have told of the country, the inhabitants called this old man-him that it is bad-and Pequot will drink no more— Pequot. An Indian, named Pamanack, from Mon- for his race is nearly run. Pequot will sit on the tauk Point, one of those lingerers, who hover around the confines of civilization, meeting the stern old chief, offered him his bottle, and invited him to drink; his reply, with the habitual melancholy, resting over his features, renewedly awakens in our mind, the deepest sympathy and compassion, which we have long entertained for those injured races of men, who have been driven from their possessions, and are fast fading away from the things that are. We are glad to seize every memorial which may perpetuate a knowledge of a noble race that will soon be blotted out from the page of the world's history. After Pamanack offered Pequot the black bottle, and invited him to drink-" Pequot drew himself up to his extreme height, and for a moment there was a mingled expression of loathing, abhorrence, and ferocity, flashing from his countenance that showed that his whole Indian's nature was in a blaze; but it was only momentary, for in another, the expression vanished from his countenance, the habitual melancholy resumed its place upon his features, and the words fell slowly, almost musically, from his lips: "The fire-waterthe fire-water-ay, the same-the Indian and his deadly enemy." Then looking steadily at Pamanack, as he held the bottle still towards him. "Paquot will not drink. Why should Pamanack swallow the white man's poison, and with his own hands dig his grave? Pamanack is not alone! His squaw watches at the door of his wigwam, as she looks out upon the long waves of the ocean tumbling in upon the shores of Montaukelt. His young men gather about him and catch the tautaug from its huge beeting rocks, and tread out the quahog from its muddy bed. His old men still linger on the sandy beach, and their scalp-locks float wildly in the fresh sea breeze. Pamanack has yet a home-but Pequot-he is the last of his race. He stands on the high hills of Tashaway, and he sees no smoke, but that from the wigwams of the Long Knives. He moves in silence along the plains of Pequonnuck,--but the fences of the pale faces obstruct his progress. His canoe dances at the side of the dripping rocks-but the cheating white men paddle up to his side. His feet sink in the ploughed field, but it is not the corn of the red man. His squaw has rolled her last log, and lies cold in her blanket. His young men,-the firewater, and fire-dust have consumed them. Pequot looks around for his people-where are they? The black snake and muskrat shoot through the water as his moccasin treads the swamp, where their bones lie, deep covered from the hate of their enemies. Pequot is the last of his race! Pamanack is good, but the heart of Pequot is heavy. He cannot drink the fire-water, for his young men

Dickens will yet have reason to believe that the "univarsal Yankee Nation," is like the Irishman's pig, that will go to Cork only when he thinks the swine-herd would drive him in the opposite direction to Killcummin. Dickens came over here to get up a feeling in favor of international copy-right, for the benefit of English authors. So far from succeeding, the first part of his Martin Chuzzlewit-by the way-quite a book, with two good illustrations, is republished here, in Yankee land, and sold, engravings and all, for four-pence-ha'-penny. The Messrs. Harper have got up this work on good paper, and in their usual style of neat typography. Martin Chuzzlewit for four-pence-ha'penny! What will Mrs. Dickens say? We hope the publishers will send a copy to each of the little “Bozes.”

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